Free software leader Richard Stallman claims Ubuntu amounts to spyware with Amazon search integrated into the “dash” of its Unity interface. He is calling for developers to shun the open-source ...

You'd think someone had just kicked some Ubuntu Linux fans' puppy. Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, has added Amazon search results to the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 Unity Dash search function. Some ...

The next Ubuntu release, dubbed Karmic Koala (k is the 10th letter of the alphabet and this is officially release 9.10) is drawing attention for its support for clouds and its improved desktop. That ...

There’s been a considerable bit of feather-ruffling caused lately by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. Most recently, of course, was Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth’s controversial ...

Canonical announced on Tuesday that Ubuntu Pro is available in a subscription-included model on Amazon Web Services. With Ubuntu Pro on AWS, users can launch Ubuntu Pro on-demand instances and ...

Company insists that adding Amazon product listings to desktop search results is secure -- and certainly not a form of advertising Say you’re performing a local search on your computer for the word ...

Richard Stallman, creator of the GNU Project and founder of the Free Software Foundation, declared on Friday that Ubuntu is spyware. Jono Bacon, Ubuntu’s Community Manager, has countered on the same ...

The Electric Frontier Foundation has some choice words for the latest version of the Ubuntu operating system, calling its inclusion of search results from Amazon (and possibly other third parties) a ...

Unity 8, seen in the Ubuntu Desktop Next images and Ubuntu Touch phones, removes a controversial feature branded “spyware” by some and fixes one of Ubuntu’s most long-standing complaints. When Unity 8 ...

There are many things that comprise a successful Linux distribution, but there may be none more important than trust. Before you build a production Linux system, you have to trust that the ...

Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" is out, and while it has a few cool features, it also has one very annoying addition: the Dash now includes useless Amazon results in your searches. Here's how to ...